This litany is a meditation on what some of the saints have spoken or written. As we listen to these saints, we pray for a deeper personal participation in their sanctity. This litany represents only a small sampling of the vast communion of saints (the selection is limited due to space constraints). Feel free to add your favorites to it. One option is to sing the litany and it's response.

R: (Saint's name), pray for us.

Holy Mary, Mother of God: "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word." R.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel: "Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you." R.

Saint Joseph: [pause in reverent silence] R.

Saint John the Baptist: "Jesus must increase; I must decrease." R.

Saint Peter: "Lord, you know that I love you." R.

Saint Paul: "We had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might trust not in ourselves but in God wh…